A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.
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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
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The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
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The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
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The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
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They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.
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Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.
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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
- Henry A. Wallace Quote

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
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